IX. Research, practice, and policy perspectives on issues of children without permanent parental care

Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 223-272

  McCall, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5834.2011.00634.x     Document Type: Article

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